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moscow demands justice often adopted russian boy dies in the u.s. allegedly at the hands of his american mother the latest case of child abuse to the u.s. . they would like us to explanation just why we granted him asylum why on earth dorian the president talks to criticizing the west for pressuring him to granting asylum to the world's top whistleblower in the sun. and the u.k. races to secure a place among india's top trading partners as business relations between european powers at ten lukewarm.
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a three year old russian boy has died in the u.s. at the hands of his adoptive mother the claims come a moment after a new law came into effect of donning american citizens from adopting russian children following similar cases well most demanding severe punishments for the death of maxime policemen and according to russian diplomats the u.s. state department so far been reluctant to cooperate with investigation no reports now. that this case unfolded in texas according to officials three year old maxime died on january twenty first at the hands of his adoptive mother the conducted by russia's investigative committee reveal that maksim was beaten by his adoptive mother who according to officials also fed him strong psychotropic medication and
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investigators say that the boy allegedly died before medics arrived at the scene but that it was his adoptive mother who had called the medics to begin with an autopsy reportedly show that maksim suffered multiple injuries to his head his abdomen and internal organs prior to his death officials say the three year old boy's arms legs and head were also covered in scratches and bruises this is just one of twenty cases when a russian adopted child dies in the custody of an american family here in the states some examples include back in two thousand and eight a russian boy died after spending nine hours in a car with temperatures reaching up to thirty two degrees celsius but his adoptive father faced up to ten years in jail for manslaughter however he was found not guilty and walked free there was a case in which an american mother. boarded her adoptive russian son on a flight to moscow and giving him just a note saying she doesn't want to be his mother anymore in the few weeks past few
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weeks russia did adopt legislation banning u.s. adoptions of russian children it was criticized by many. saying that it prevents russian children from having a better life in american families russian officials say that the new law it's targeting the us legal system that according to russian officials has been treating cases of russian children of cruel treatment or manslaughter with it admissible leniency. given unfortunately is usually months after russian child has died in the us that the american side informs us about it and one case it was five years after a boy died and that's how our cooperation with the u.s. works they do not informants fast enough or the information is not reliable the right tens of thousands of russian adoptive children living in the us and we haven't got a clue about the lives of most of them there is no confirmation that they're all right and they're not being to be released do you want to show it's an investigation into the death of maxime is still on going to find out greater
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details i mean i reburn the author of several books on international adoption says despite washington's promise to better investigate the abuse of russian children by other american adoptive families the long standing problem still hasn't been properly addressed this is been the ongoing problem and what russia has been demanding from or from the u.s. for years is follow up but the united states is not set up to follow up on adoptions once their final ones that's been a thorn in the side of russian officials for good reason with these now twenty cases of abuse that have resulted in the death of these twenty children and we don't know how many other children are. living with abuse or you know that haven't died from it. well i could order the lead our career is celebrating i've been so killed a third time as the country's president our colleagues from r.t.e.
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spanish channels but the newly elected leader among other issues he was asked about his take on the future of the world's top whistleblower and wiki leaks at its edge in the sun he remains holed up in the ecuadorian embassy in london sort of yes it does in a practical that's for the practical implication of julian assange the situation is up to europe to resolve it the problem will be solved if the u.k. grants or safe passage and that hasn't been any intention to disrupt the prosecution process according to the swedish justice system in spite of the numerous misinformed allegations see if they send a prosecutor to ecuador's embassy in britain and recording interrogation on video which they can do it would under twist this not about is if they really have to interrogate him julian assange and was never even officially presented with charges if a lawyer was on it's lucky at the european court and achieved a safe passage for songe to staying at the ecuadorian embassy in this situation we finally resolved it is all now your child's but there is
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a lot of arrogance involved here a neo colonial sentiment too they would like us to offer explanations as to why we granted him asylum wouldn't they why on earth there's more they even want us to backtrack on our decision we will never do this. but activist and radio show host solomon says that careers opposition to the white house could keep him in office for quite some time. the sentiment on the ground with most ecuadorians as well as the growing sentiment throughout latin america is that those who continue to align themselves with the u.s. unconditionally are not going to find some or all the people of people who eventually are the ones who are going to be casting their ballots during these elections has been outspoken against us new york colonization is has been an outspoken against all of the neo liberal agenda and us imperialism for so quite some time folks are done with this whole all model where we're going to continue to be you know continuously emperor ritually dependent on us and it's these corporate
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interests that those days are done hopefully. as the u.k.'s relations with europe turn increasingly sour the government there appears to be seeking an alternative market to support its debt stricken economy the british prime minister is on a three day visit to its former colony india bid to officials and investors well david cameron has called on new delhi to cut thank you nation's red tape to encourage stronger trade ties with the k. and says britain wants to become india's economic partner of choice and the visit comes as france also seeks to expand its ties with a rapidly growing asian economy some observers say london will face challenges in winning over new delhi. will the size of the delegation certainly show the aggressive nature of far right mr cameron's drive to seek trade abroad right now prime minister cameron is not the best friend of the rest of the you especially
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france and germany so i think the interests of the two countries france and britain are quite separate britain feels that because of the historic on relationship with india. britain can. then perhaps first where the indian government how well i would say this the historical memory is of course only a rule doesn't sit very well read the indians still. meanwhile reports reveal the u.k. has already made a killing by selling weapons to a country accused of gross human rights violations lanka has reportedly bought more than three million pounds worth of small arms and ammunition from britain despite the asian countries record of mistreating minorities and suppressing separatist antiwar activists jim brown believes the u.k. is placing geopolitics super human rights. because there's the geostrategic
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questions because sri lanka occupies a very strategic position. in the indian ocean you have the united states what they call the pivot toward asia which britain the plea going along with good relations with the shura langkow would be very valuable in that context also because this whole idea that britain abides by human rights criteria in arms exports simply doesn't make sense and generally should be discounted the arms trade is a very hard. profitable geo politically important business and the business which. is in general and in. particular. to come through this are playing with fire.
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the fire. it up to four children a day course with weapons and you taste schools according to the latest data we look at how the worrying trend is being dealt with. and as israel continues to push for more settlements the report from a controversial area of land one that's threatening to kill off any hopes of two state solution. you know sometimes you see a story and it seems so late. big .
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thank you come back here with. quite a few textbooks a lunch box and a dangerous weapon not quite what you'd expect to find a british school bag well sadly for u.k. parents a recent study shows an increasing number of pupils are being caught with knives and even guns in schools. the figures now and investigates this worrying trend.
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you probably end up in a dead end job or in prison you'll be lucky to be alive when you're sixteen. you know our parent is gone our carrot is not for no for teaching them to say anything about a stark insight into the reality facing some of britain's schoolchildren despite having one of the best education systems in the world the latest research estimates that up to four peoples a day a court with weapons in british schools guns knives and knuckle dusters just some of the items confiscated by police are men who are always searching the school and . gone to the school i had. gone to see this first shotgun about to fire or schools are supposed to be a safe secure environment where the focus is on education the thing is have revealed that hundreds of weapons are being seized in schools every year with the number of violent incidents on the rise the reality for many schools across the bay
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is that your classmate can quickly become your enemy and the school playground can be a dangerous place but it's not only the peoples who are subject to violence in london alone this being moved in four thousand assaults on teachers by peoples over the past five years it's a shocking indication at the levels of violence in schools it becomes normal to. get involved in this you get sucked into this last thing to violence the best approach. is it's just about waking up in the morning and going for run yeah after a while it becomes normal to you stephen is now working with us charity x l p set up in one thousand nine hundred ninety six after school stabbing founded patrick regan has been helping young people tackle gang culture and violence a member could come. to me when a bulletproof vest underneath his school uniform he said i'll be dead by thursday
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according to patrick it's early intervention which is prison is forty thousand pounds a year young person's secure unit is one hundred sixty five thousand pounds a year a murder can be a million pounds a year to investigate so actually you know if we intervene earlier keep kids in education keep that sense of a safe place an environment where they can grow and flourish then it is far better and that doesn't take into consideration the emotional course you know i have to deal with people who've lost their sons and their daughters to gun and knife crime and. so we have to address. the problem of violence in schools is not a new one but it's not something you're likely to read about in a school prospectus and it's particularly acute in the countries deprived in a city of course schools on the whole do not want the public to know that they have a problem with children bringing weapons onto the premises so they do not readily give the information so i guess the problem is significant or they teach it can now
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search people's if they suspect they're carrying a weapon many theel politicians are still failing to sit up and take notice and until more is done to address the problem the children who attend these schools will continue to learn these lessons. r.t. . or staying in britain with a handful of sports stadiums across the u.k. already being named after arab companies petro dollars from gulf states are continuing to rebranding britain well on our website find out which of the u.k.'s military institutions is set to rename a building after the king of bahrain also online today after russia's urals were hit by a ten thousand ton me to write the country scientists are rushing to develop a system that could counteract space threats in that project at r.t. dot com.
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reports are emerging of a number of casualties after a car bomb apparently exploded in a rural part of the syrian capital damascus this as e.u. foreign ministers took this surprise step to allow greater non-lethal aid into the country keeping an arms embargo in place or britain immediately hailed the move as a victory saying more talks would come in three months time along with france they've been striving for direct tom supplies to the opposition rebels while un investigators say both the syrian opposition and the government are committing war
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crimes in that those are guilty should face justice at the hague or foreign affairs editor for chronicles right in the center of it a criminal court is just a cover for a powerful outside force pulling the strings. the i.c.c. is not the forum or any country to see the justice the power of the i.c.c. prosecutor to act depends on the will of the political masters so ultimately it's a political court and the foundation of the entire edifice is the ideology of the universal political and legal culture the whole world is defined by the post-modern west so this is really a sequel which is supposed to hide the essence of this project and it is to treat bashar and his government as men. because of joint enterprise
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so i think this is just a choreographed process to conceal the fact that the decision in washington has already been made but luckily bashar is proving to be a much tougher nut to crack than they expected. two russian planes delivering almost fifty tons of humanitarian aid have landed in syria as expected both of those thirty eight russian citizens wish to leave the war torn country at home again while several russian ships are patrolling the mediterranean sea it evacuate eagle from the wreckage that. for international news in brief now and military aircraft is smashed into a building in a residential district of yemen's capital some are pilots and at least six civilians are confirmed dead and immoral believed to be buried in the rubble a crash occurred near train school which is the epicenter of twenty seven uprising that led to the ousting of distant army of. because of the incident is being
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investigated. recent striking workers from spain's iberia airlines have clashed in madrid are often said port during attempts to clear a terminal of protesting crowds are barriers staff announced a five day walkout against that last one four thousand jobs spanish carrier merged with british airways in france the testers are downplaying expectations for cuts the strikes have already grounded hundreds of flights are expected to cost the struggling on losing members. the french president has been denied live coverage of his visit to greece by the journalists media employees in your sister's who stricken country on the twenty four hour strike in protest at the deepening cuts move comes to sponsor the court's ruling the strike by state media as illegal the government accused the opposition of the deliberate use blackouts during the brief visit to athens by francois.
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relations appear to be deteriorating between egyptian president mohamed morsi is muslim brotherhood and his main allies a prominent member of egypt's hardline islamist party has resigned as. it's a visor after another raid was fired on geishas abuse of office it all comes ahead of a parliamentary election expected within months it was a mistake that the government sees the poll was a chance to bring stability to the volatile nation however a date for the election has yet to be announced. despite monday's anti israeli protests in the west bank the country is vowing not to backtrack from its settlement plans israel has been eyeing a disputed area of the land known as anyone for years even though building there might drive a stake through the heart of any future peace solution of the palestinians. investigates its rugged and remarkable landscape largely empty but full of meaning
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this is one of the west bank's most sensitive pieces of real estate for fourteen years plans to build here have existed but were kept on hold but all of that changed last november less than twenty four hours after the u.n. general assembly recognize palestine is a nonmember observer state tel aviv fast track to construction plans here prompting the palestinian government to call it a slap in the face of the entire world. this plan to build here is not legal according to international law which states that when one country occupies another kind of change facts on the ground of israel is doing exactly that while also getting people out of their lands soley for the benefit of the settlers. known as the one this controversial patch of earth exists between east jerusalem where palestinians aspire to establish the capital of a future palestinian state and the huge israeli settlement of ma'ale adumim it is the last remaining corridor between the large palestinian cities in the west bank
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and of plans go ahead in the israelis extend this area it would cut into a big chunk of the west bank effectively driving a wedge into the middle of any potential palestinian state critics have warned that filling the space with jewish homes amounts to a doomsday scenario effectively striking a fatal heart attack to the two state solution but for now the plan is to build a garbage dump in this valley with the waste that comes from jerusalem and then in about twenty to thirty years when it's full to build a park on top of us here you can see that palestinians fear it's part of a long term strategy to extend iran and build new israeli settlements it's not surprising this is not the first time that such a plan is submitted it is a part of ongoing policy that has been growing for years now in at them to grab palestinian lands but first the israelis need to get rid of the people who live
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here among them around three arab jerusalem neighborhoods and a hundred and fifty bedouins for whom this has been home for nearly half a century mohammad cushion is angry he says tel aviv doesn't want him and his tribe here but it also refuses to allow them to return to their original village in the make of desert from where they fled after the creation of the state in one nine hundred forty eight when a lot of them it is discrimination they give the settlers everything that they want we're as we do not ask for anything besides laying in the land and they want to evacuated us and our children live surrounded by war it's like being in a prison one of them that they will grow up and will not make peace in the future with the israeli side was a lot tel aviv complains the bedwyn camps were set up eagerly without permits. and stand in the way of urban planning but critics say this is just an excuse for a land grab it makes me furious this dump site is going to harm the environment and it's going to harm the health of the people and they make it harder and harder to
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find a solution for the situation demolition orders have already been issued threatening to destroy the last remnants of bedwyn life in these hills and while israeli officials say the construction anyone if it happens at all is many years away it cuts to the heart of the israeli palestinian conflict which fundamentally is about the land and the fate of the people who live on a policy or r t in the west bank. well so he will be breaking the sets with the mountains stay with us. all those north korean scamps are at it again another nuclear test in north korea has made all the headlines trust me nuclear missiles are something worth being concerned over but haven't we heard this song and dance before all the way back in
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two thousand and two the north koreans going to the b.b.c. ruled that they have a secret weapons program and turned their young beyond nuclear reactor back on since then every once in a while a missile flies and people say the war is coming and silence then another test of some sort shock horror and then silence again with great just uses this is a bargaining tool to get what they want and then how wacky the north korean state may seem they understand that launching one or two missiles against united states means they probably won't even hit their target and in return their entire country would turn into ash instantly this situation really isn't cause for concern until something big changes like the us not being in a position to support south korea japan or some other dramatic event that changes the game like china giving up their support for the north korean side but for now the cycle just keep going on and on and about two years the same headlines will be back with the same fear will be back a lather rinse repeat but that's just my opinion.

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